Josh Cohen writes across three Wizbang sites and makes his home on Multiple Mentality. This article, however, is exclusive to Wizbang Pop!

Though the MTV Movie Awards won't actually air until June 8, the ceremony itself occurred last weekend. WP!'s trikc recently posted the winners.

Setting aside the fact that the MTV Movie Awards are better than the Oscars in only one way -- they're guaranteed to run only about two hours, thanks to MTV's crack editing staff -- I'd like to address the winner in the "Best Kiss" category: Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.

My wife watches MTV fairly often; in fact, when there's nothing to watch, or when I stop the TiVo to go to the bathroom or do the laundry, she drops back into Live TV mode and immediately keys up channel 50. While I disagree with this practice wholeheartedly, it gives me a chance to see what the sheeple care about at the moment. Last weekend, I saw the nominees for Best Kiss, and the moment I heard Brokeback Mountain, I knew without a shadow of a doubt that it would win this award.

My friend Jenni told me she saw BM, and that the sex scenes between Ledger and Gyllenhaal were pretty hot. I wouldn't know; I haven't seen the film, and honestly, I don't know if I will. Not because it's love between two men, by the way; that doesn't bother me. I'm more bothered by the incessant press coverage of the film because it's about love between two men. It's the same thing as with Mary Carey and Gary Coleman running for governor of California: they were the candidates that were most visible and risible. No one expected them to win. Arnold Schwarzenegger was worth a few jokes, but he had a serious shot at winning -- as evidenced by the fact that he did win. While BM isn't risible, it's certainly visible as a major, award-winning motion picture where the main subject is love between two men.

Plus -- and let's be honest with ourselves -- none of the other kisses nominated really were anything special, not in my opinion. But even if they had been, I'm pretty sure BM would've walked away with the award. After all, MTV thinks of itself as a vehicle for social change (as sad as that is). Getting more people to accept two men kissing is probably one of their goals. And it's an admirable goal: no one should be persecuted for who they love.

But they also shouldn't have attention drawn to them for that reason, either. Whether it's Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, or two men, or two women, or a celebrity who falls in love with a clerk at Starbucks and marries her, no one's love life should stand out from anyone else's.

I'm not surprised that Brokeback Mountain won best kiss. And no one else should be, either. Let's just hope that the uber-Conservative talking heads don't make more out of this than has already been done. Of course, I'm also making more out of it than I'd like to, but then, I'm a blogger. It's our job.